William Shakespeare Quotes
59 Quotes Found
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
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A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
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Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare